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The "American Dream" costs far more than most people will earn over their lifetime
  • Cars devaluate around 50% every 3 years, so if you bought a 3 year old car instead of new, you could swap it every 7 years for the same cost. And if it holds some residual value, even more often than that...

    Some manufacturers even offer warranties on 3 year old leasing returns.

  • The "American Dream" costs far more than most people will earn over their lifetime
  • If you have pets bigger than a hamster, 70k in your lifetime seems reasonable, even low. That around 1k per year.

    And a different used car every 6 years is borderline frugal. My dream would be a new car every 3 years.

    I don't see the data to be so bad. Even the house financing is realistic (heavily dependent on location, of course).

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  • Or TVs. Or people who want to sync between devices. Or download for offline. Or compensate creators. Or not bother installing 50 scripts and updating them 3 times a day. Or just do the right thing. You know, 99.99% of people.

  • Grandfathered YouTube Premium users will see price increase in January
  • Ah yes, the #worksonmymachine thinking.

    If you watch low effort content you will get low effort content. I watch amazing content that is well worth the few bucks a month. Late night shows, stand up comedy, documentaries, news analysis, tech reviews, car reviews, programming news and tutorials, chess commentary and courses, architecture and interior design tours, sport summaries, popular science...

    BTW, Walmart is a huge company, I assume you also don't pay there? Apparently robbing corporations and farmers it also would be fine, because "the products are so low quality nowadays" ...

  • Grandfathered YouTube Premium users will see price increase in January
  • It's more than triple for a family plan, but you share it with people and you land well under 5 euros per person.

    Please tell me how to install chrome or Firefox on a corporate laptop without admin rights, I'll wait.

  • Grandfathered YouTube Premium users will see price increase in January
  • How do I install it on my TV? How do I sync? Do I install on every device I use? What if I don't have admin rights? What if it's out of date and the ads play anyway?

    For less than a Starbucks coffee I have a month of premium, and I don't have to play cat and mouse.

  • Grandfathered YouTube Premium users will see price increase in January
  • What about my TV, where I watch most of my content? What about inter-device sync? What about paying the creators for their work?

    I could also shoplift in my local supermarket, but I'm into "that sort of thing" (paying for people's work).

  • Grandfathered YouTube Premium users will see price increase in January
  • Or maybe they are sharing the family plan with 2 other people and rounding up. Or they have a different plan. Or they live in a country with different prices and converting to usd. Or a handful of other reasons that doesn't involve conspiracy theories.

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